Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-03
XXTH LEGISLATURE.
A Bill that No One shall Be Convicted
OF Homicide Unless q Part o; the
Body Be Found, Engrossed.
A Bill Introduced In the House Providing
for the Rapid Count of Votes at Elec.
tons, with Prompt Announcement.
THE SENATE.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Ten, Feb. 2-Senator Frank
presented petition from citizens of
Erath county, asking postponement of
collection of taxes.
Senator Upshaw presented 8 protest
against the telephone bill.
Judiciary committee No. made several
unfavOrable reports on acts seeking to
amend the penal code, and reported
favorably the bill to make it penal to use
language or be guilty of conduct calcu-
lated to provoke breach Of the peace
A resolution offered by Senator Hsrri-
son WAS adopted, requesting the Com
missioner of the Land Office to furnish
list Of all certificat, and patents issued
for LANDS in the reservation.
a bill was introduced by Senator Glass
cock concerning the publication of civil
and criminal laws.
President Wheeler appointed Senators
Harrison and Woods committee to visit
the Terrell Insane Asylum.
The bin permitting railroads to aban-
don their original termint on the coast
which have been wrecked by storms was
taken up and passed under suspension
OF the rules.
lAe CSudlt Ulll pEONlulHS lUSI no per
son shall be convicted of any grade OF
homicide unless the body or portion
thereof Of the victim is found, was taken
up and ordered engrossed.
after executive session and confrma-
ton of sundry appointments elsewhere
mentioned the Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
A petition asking for q new county out
Of Dal1 I
sented by Mr.. Graves, and petitions from
McLennan and Hill counties protesting
against organizing the new county of
Ross were presented.
BY Mr. Camp, bill to regulate real
estate and loan companies and providing
generallythat no corporation shallown real
estate directly or in trust except such
as may be necessary for their
offices or places of business. Loan asso-
Citations may acquire title to such property
as they have lien on.
By Mr.. Smith of Travis, bill to grant
annual pensions TO the INDECENT soldiers
Of 1886, and the INDECENT widows of such
soldiers.
By Mr.. Payne, bill to repair the mon
ument erected to Fannin's men who fell
near Goliad.
BY Mr. Davis of Shelby, On act to con-
fer concurrent jurisdiction on District
courts with justices of the peace, in mis-
demeanors in counties where the criminal
jurisdiction has been reduced.
An important bill regulating the descent
OF community property was passed. 1t
provides that in the event of there being
direct heirs the survivor shall get one-half
of the estate and the direct heirs the
other
The election bill ena1 ling a count of
the vote in general elections to be arrived
at in an hour after the close of the polls
was considered, as was also bill Great
ing an agricultural and labor bureau
The bill extending the time for the
resumption of lands sold for taxes passed
to engrossment.
House bill No 50 amending the law
to joint obligors passed to en-
grossment.
The House then adjourned.
The following are the main features of
Mr.. Sharp's bill for state bureau of ag-
riculture to be under the present Depart
ment Of Insurance, the Commissioner of
which department snail assume the adj
ditionsl duties and be allowed necessary
in attending the meetings of the
4nC Jill Ndllo Tic
duties of the Commissioner.
BY Mr.. Clark OF Uvalde, House bill No.
357 amending the thirty-fourth section of
the Judicial district act. It makes FL
Psso, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves and Val
verde counties compose the district, and
fixes the terms of the court.
BY MIR Plumly, by request, House bill
No. 1863 validating the titles to land re-
served from location at the time the
same were filed ON or patents issued
therefor. 1t provides for filing all valid
genuine land certificates. The act does
not apply to reservations reverted t. the
state for public free schools by reason of
the forfeiture of grants or the failure of
the reservations, nor to locations or pat
ents to alternate sections surveyed for the
state within such reservation. The emer-
gency clause is added by Mr.. Gresham,
giving the Regents of the University of
Texas control of the University lands
with power to lease or sell, subject to the
Governors approval, and to institute
necessary suits in the interest of the Uni
Tersity.
By Mr.. Gresham, House bill 343 regu-
ating freight charges, etc, by railroads
operating in the state of Texas.
House bill No. "a, amending the act ex-
ending the time for the redemption of
ands sold for taxes so as to allow twelve
months time for redemption, was passed
With slight amendments.